Profile in Persecution: Sayed Osama Ali Husain

Sayed Osama Ali Husain was a 16-year-old scholar when Bahraini authorities arbitrarily arrested him from the road with out presenting an arrest warrant. Throughout detention, he endured torture, denial of entry to authorized counsel, and an unfair trial based mostly on confessions extracted underneath torture. He’s at the moment serving a 22-year and 6-month sentence in Jau Jail on politically motivated costs.

On 5 March 2017, officers from the Ministry of Inside (MOI), riot law enforcement officials, safety law enforcement officials, and Prison Investigations Directorate (CID) officers arrested Sayed Osama on Al-Maared Avenue the place he was going along with his pal to have dinner at a restaurant situated in a industrial space within the Bahraini capital, Manama. Subsequently, the officers transported Sayed Osama, concurrently beating and torturing him, and raided the condo the place he had been hiding. They transferred him to the CID constructing afterward. Furthermore, the dad and mom weren’t conscious that Sayed Osama was arrested on the time, whereas they came upon the following day at daybreak after they woke as much as the information of the raid on the condo. Roughly six hours after the arrest, they acquired a name from Sayed Osama stating that he was on the CID constructing, the place he was detained for nearly 4 days.

Earlier than his arrest, Sayed Osama was being pursued each day for 2 years. Consequently, he was compelled to cover in an condo and lived in tough circumstances, experiencing instability and insecurity. Moreover, two years earlier than his arrest, on the age of 14, Sayed Osama had been sentenced to 2 years in jail on costs of riots, unlawful meeting, and the manufacture of usable and explosive units. However, the household’s home acquired a number of summonses at completely different occasions with out mentioning the fees or offering any cause.

On the CID constructing, officers repeatedly tortured Sayed Osama by beating him on varied components of his physique throughout the whole interrogation interval. They stripped him of his garments and positioned him in a really chilly room for an prolonged time period. He endured varied different types of torture however didn’t disclose all of them out of worry for the sentiments of his dad and mom. Because of the torture he endured, Sayed Osama has been affected by varied accidents. The interrogation lasted for a couple of week and was carried out with out the presence of a lawyer. Because of the threats and torture, he confessed earlier than the Public Prosecution Workplace (PPO) to among the costs in opposition to him.

On 19 March 2017, two weeks after his arrest, Sayed Osama was transferred to the Dry Dock Detention Heart, the place he was in a position to meet his household for the primary time since his arrest. On 11 Might 2017, he was transferred to the New Dry Dock Jail, designed for convicts underneath the age of 21.

Sayed Osama was not introduced earlier than a choose inside 48 hours of his arrest, was not given satisfactory time and services to organize for his trial, and wasn’t in a position to current proof and problem proof offered in opposition to him. Moreover, there was no lawyer current as neither the dad and mom employed a lawyer nor did the court docket present one.

The court docket convicted Sayed Osama between 27 March 2016 and 28 February 2019, in instances associated to 1) unlawful meeting and rioting, 2) manufacturing usable or explosive units, 3) intentional injury to buildings or public property, 4) putting buildings simulating types of explosives, 5) manufacturing or buying and selling in explosives or importing weapons, 6) importing or possessing explosives or rifles or pistols, 7) explosion or tried explosion, 8) arson, 9) violation of the phrases of the license to import explosives or their amount, and 10) negligent destruction. He was sentenced to a complete of twenty-two years and 6 months in jail. Sayed Osama appealed among the rulings, however the court docket of attraction rejected all of the appeals and upheld the verdicts.

Sayed Osama continues to be affected by accidents ensuing from the torture he was subjected to by the officers throughout his arrest and interrogation in 2017, and he’s nonetheless being denied remedy and well being care.

Sayed Osama’s warrantless arrest, torture, denial of legal professional entry, unfair trial, and medical negligence represent violations of the Conference In opposition to Torture and Different Merciless, Inhuman or Degrading Remedy or Punishment (CAT), the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the Worldwide Covenant on Financial, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to which Bahrain is a celebration. Moreover, the violations he endured as a minor contravene the Conference on the Rights of the Baby (CRC), to which Bahrain can be a celebration.

As such, Individuals for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) calls on the Bahraini authorities to instantly and unconditionally launch Sayed Osama. ADHRB additionally urges the Bahraini authorities to research allegations of arbitrary arrest, torture, denial of authorized counsel, and medical negligence, and to carry the perpetrators accountable. ADHRB additional advocates for the Bahraini authorities to supply compensation for the accidents he suffered because of torture and maintain the perpetrators accountable. On the very least, ADHRB advocates for a good retrial for Sayed Osama underneath the Restorative Justice Regulation for Youngsters, resulting in his launch. Moreover, it urges the Jau Jail administration to instantly present Sayed Osama with the mandatory well being care to deal with the accidents ensuing from torture, holding it accountable for any further deterioration in his well being situation.